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“Frustration Rock” remains one of the best songs recorded during the first decade of the twenty first century. It’s really an amazing piece of simple rock, garage and punk stuff with its lyrics detailing most of what dour dudes feel on a daily basis. Distillation, sometimes, is an art all unto itself.

Since the release of that first Tyvek long player, a self released CDr at that, the band’s been affiliated with two of the better thought of underground rock imprints currently running schlock into your ears. The self titled followed up came out on Siltbreeze a year back or so and oddly sported some re-imaged versions of songs first issued on the aforementioned CDr. The older version of “Frustration Rock” remains the better of the two.

Either way, that disc wound up making the Detroit band sound a bit fuller than it had on earlier releases. It have simply been the recording. It could have been any number of things. What it wasn’t, though, was better or worse. The self titled disc was just a bit different even as it retained its sloppy, glass eyed sheen.

Countless singles, tapes and low rent rehearsal tapes have since made Tyvek a relatively easy commodity to stumble upon whether one’s perusing the interwebs or a local record store. But the step up from independently released work to Siltbreeze and now onto In the Red Records comes accompanied by more sublte shifts in Tyvek’s aural sensibilities.